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09:00 - 10:30	NSE Opening and KeynoteNSE at Oceania VI Chair(s): Sona Ghahremani Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

09:00 10m Day opening		NSE Opening and Welcome Notes NSE Sona Ghahremani Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
09:10 60m Keynote		Sustainable neural-symbolic artificial intelligence: is it possible to have the best from both (or all) worlds NSE Priscila Machado Vieira Lima Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
10:10 20m Talk		Neuro-Symbolic and Causal Reasoning for Software Verification and Validation NSE Christian Medeiros Adriano Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

11:00 - 12:30	NSE Session 2NSE / NLBSE at Oceania VI Chair(s): Christian Medeiros Adriano Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

11:00 20m Talk		Integrating Bayesian Reasoning and Evolutionary Search for Knowledge-Driven Team Formation NSE Felipe Cunha VIRTUS/UFCG, Mirko Perkusich VIRTUS, Danyllo Albuquerque VIRTUS/UFCG, Ramon Nóbrega dos Santos VIRTUS/UFCG, Kyller Costa Gorgônio Federal University of Campina Grande, Angelo Perkusich VIRTUS/UFCG
11:20 20m Research paper		ASP-Bench: From Natural Language to Logic Programs NSE Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
11:40 15m Talk		Code Generation for Domain-Specific Programming Languages: Learnings and Outlook for Neuro-Symbolic Approaches NSE Ruben Ruiz-Torrubiano IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences
11:55 5m Day closing		Closing and Final Remarks NSE Christian Medeiros Adriano Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
12:00 5m Day opening		NLBSE Opening NLBSE
12:05 25m Talk		Keynote: "Answering Questions About Open Source Projects" — Marco A. Gerosa (Northern Arizona University, USA) NLBSE

14:00 - 15:30	NLBSE Research PapersNLBSE at Oceania VI Chair(s): Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA

14:00 30m Keynote		Beyond Off-the-Shelf: Building Reliable NLP Tools for Software Engineering NLBSE K: Nicole Novielli University of Bari
14:15 15m Paper		From Issues to Insights: RAG-based Explanation Generation from Software Engineering Artifacts NLBSE A: Daniel Pöttgen University of Cologne, A: Mersedeh Sadeghi University of Cologne, A: Max Unterbusch University of Duisburg-Essen, A: Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen
14:45 15m Short-paper		Bridging Communication Gaps: Inclusive Conversational Agents for Requirement Engineering NLBSE A: Munazza Zaib Monash University
15:00 10m Paper		Automating Metadata Extraction from Software Engineering Contracts Using a RAG Framework NLBSE A: Momojit Biswas TCS Research, A: Chirag Jain TCS Research, A: Preethu Rose Anish TCS Research Media Attached
15:10 10m Short-paper		How should self-deprecation comments be classified? A toxicity analysis study on Zephyr NLBSE A: Satyanarayana Chowdary Kadiyala Colorado State University, A: Jaydeb Sarker University of Nebraska Omaha, A: Bianca Trinkenreich Colorado State University
15:20 10m Product announcement		NLBSE Awards and Message from the Chairs NLBSE P: Giuseppe Colavito University of Bari, Italy, P: Nataliia Stulova MacPaw, P: Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA

16:00 - 18:30	NLBSE ToolsNLBSE at Oceania VI Chair(s): Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA, Moritz Mock Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

16:00 5m Day opening		NLBSE Tool Competition Opening NLBSE
16:05 7m Short-paper		High-quality data augmentation for code comment classification NLBSE A: Thomas Borsani , A: Andrea Rosani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, A: Giuseppe Di Fatta
16:12 7m Short-paper		TraCC: Efficient Multi-Label Code Comment Classification Through Knowledge Distillation and Adaptive Thresholding NLBSE A: Pir Sami Ullah Shah FAST National University, A: Abdullah Ashfaq National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), A: Ahmed Fasseh National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), A: Dilawar Shah National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)
16:19 7m Short-paper		X-LoRA MME: Multi-Model Ensemble with Mixture of Experts for Code Comment Classification NLBSE A: MD Akib Haider
16:26 7m Short-paper		Distilling Semantics: Efficient Multi-label Code Comment Classification NLBSE A: Muhammad Abdul Majeed National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), A: Ahmed Bin Asim National University of Computer & emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)
16:33 5m Product announcement		NLBSE Tool Competition Awards and Closing NLBSE C: Moritz Mock Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, C: Pooja Rani University of Zurich
16:38 1h50m Tutorial		NLBSE NVIDIA Tutorial: Building an LLM-based coding copilot NLBSE I: Pedro Mário Cruz e Silva NVIDIA
18:28 2m Day closing		NLBSE Closing NLBSE P: Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Colorado State University, USA

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